10 INTERESTING TOPICS FOR DABATE EXAMINATION (PROS AND CONS): I. SHOULD EXAMINATIONS BE REPLACED BY OTHER FORMS OF ASSESSMENT? II. SHOULD PROSTITUTION BE LEGALIZED? III. SHOULD SAMESEX MARRIAGE BE LEGAL? IV. SHOULD PRESELECTING SEX OF CHILDREN BE LEGAL? V. SHOULD CENSORSHIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA BE LEGAL? VI. SHOULD THERE BE A BAN ON CHILDREN PERFORMERS? VII. SHOULD AGE DISCRIMINATION AT WORK BE ILLEGAL? VIII. SHOULD THERE A BAN ON ADVISEMENT AIMED CHILDREN? IX. SHOULD GOVERNMENT SPEND MONEY ON EXPLORING SPACE? X. SHOULD MOTHER STAY AT HOME TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN?
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I SHOULD EXAMINATIONS BE REPLACED BY OTHER FORMS OF ASSESSMENT?
II SHOULD PROSTITUTION BE LEGALIZED?
III SHOULD SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
IV SHOULD PRE-SELECTING SEX OF CHILDREN BE LEGAL?
V SHOULD CENSORSHIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA BE LEGAL?
VI SHOULD THERE BE A BAN ON CHILDREN PERFORMERS?
VII SHOULD AGE DISCRIMINATION AT WORK BE ILLEGAL?
VIII SHOULD THERE A BAN ON ADVISEMENT AIMED CHILDREN?
IX SHOULD GOVERNMENT SPEND MONEY ON EXPLORING SPACE?
X SHOULD MOTHER STAY AT HOME TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN?
Trang 31 SHOULD EXAMINATIONS BE REPLACED BY OTHER FORMS OF ASSESSMENT?
POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Too much memorization
Does not work on student well
- Newman, 2018: “usually test on students’ memory not their real understanding”
Try to remember all of what has been learned mechanically
Explain:
- Students having good memory => get good marks
- Students having bad memory => get low grades
+ not just test only memory => gain more knowledge
+ teachers know students’ performance
Tests are poor
Poor way to determine the intelligence of students
Tend to memorize everything on their notes without trying to understand the content
Never learn how to think critically
- Newman, 2018: “exams test students’ ability to keep cool more than their intelligence”
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Good tool for evaluation
It’s fair for all students who have to sit for the same exam + use the same method in a school, even country
Exams allow an administration for a large number
of students to measure
compare students’ knowledge
+ not always evaluation 100% the students’ capacity
+ use cheat in exams to have higher scores not care about studying, depend on those answer printed paper only
Improve their performance
Exams help students to know the position they are in
Encourage their performance
- For instance:
If a student score low grade, it encourages him/her
to study hard more to score high grade
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Crimes
Legal prostitution reduces rape, sex violence + sex crimes
Sex workers would be approached a police if they danger or have a trouble with their clients
- 1998 – 2018, the number of women involved in prostitution increase, but surprisingly, rape cases have declined by 31% (Research, Berlin, 2018)
+ “legalization does not reduce violence because violence is the nature of sex industry” President of Women International Association
Sex crimes
Prostitution is legal, people who want to deal with their sexual needs would have their option available for them
So instead of raping, they could hire a prostitute to satisfy their sexual need
- Khushwant Singh, the famous journalist: “the more you try to stop prostitution, the higher crime rate for women is”
+ increase human trafficking for demand for sexual exploitation of women and girls
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Individual health
There are many negative impacts on health for sex workers created by prostitution
- Sex workers have a high risk on getting STD (sexual transmitted diseases) such as HIV/AIDS…
+ easy to solve by using condoms
+ allow government to monitor the sex trade + Data from EUROPE:
“countries that have legalized prostitution have
a significantly lower HIV patient among sex workers compared to those countries do not”
Social health
STD will also be passed to their couple partners
- Jacobson, 2017: “70% of females have STD + infertility, most of them were caused by their husbands or partners who were involved in prostitution”
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Human rights
Every person has rights to have a legalized relationship with the person they love without distinction of gay, bisexual or straight
Gay marriage is protected by the US Constitution’s Commitments to liberty and equality
- Same-sex marriage magazine: “denying homosexual couples the right to marry -> not equality
+ there are always limits to rights
+ make no sense to talk about equal rights in this context
+ if gay marriage is legalized, polygamous or incestuous marriages would have to be legalized too
Marriage laws
Marriage is legally recognized between 2 people in
a personal relationship, not depend on their genders
- US marriage laws: “Gay marriage couples have the right to start families and have their own children”
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Reproduction
Same-sex couples cannot produce children because it requires both a female and a male to have a baby
- Russell, a philosopher won Nobel Prize: “the first purpose of marriage is procreation Because of children, sexual relations become important to society”
+ can be easily solved by adopt a child or scientific medical advances
Children
Even if adopt a child, it still needs both mother and father
- Article published on Child Development, 2017:
“Girls raised from their father are at higher risk for early sexual activity + teenage pregnancy”
“children without a mother are lack of the emotional security + unique advice that mothers provide”
+ university of Melnourne, 2014: “children raised by same-sex parents tend to score better, better social + academic performances”
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Human rights
People should have freedom of choice to have reproductive rights
Allow them to determine when + where they want
to have children
- Director of fertility Institute noted: “parents have the rights to choose the gender of children they want by tech existences”
+ breaking the law of nature
Family plan
Gender selection help parents free to decide the number of children they want
When the couples want a specific gender for a first born, mother don’t need to have birth many times
- Some countries limiting the size of a family is encouraging, such as China
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Cost
Expensive
Expense for pre-selecting is too much for several-years savings of the couples
- Gender selection by using IVF can cost up $20000
or even more
Result
Gender selection is uncertainly successful because
it is a new science
So it may not be worth the money you would have
to invest
- A research, WHO: “accuracy of the method is not 100%”
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Safety
Decrease the impacts of identity thef
Restrict content that would allow identity information to be easily shared
Decrease inappropriate + harmful content
- 2016: “15,4 million reports of identity were records, but this figure decrease by 16% when censorship was used”
+ easy to solve by using self-censorship
+ Ex: social network (youtube…) have age filtering + parent control sofware
Stop fake news
Fake news increases dramatically
Fake new websites => false reports for money through clocks because readers think the news is real
- News on VTV: “a man has reported that meat was infected => makes people afraid and didn’t eat meat => psychological crisis
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Human rights
Censorship are against human rights
People have rights to express their points of view + participate in political issues
Have rights to read any book they want, listen to music + watch movies for entertainment
Freedom
It takes away freedom of expression
The rights to freedom of speech is ban because there is a limit as to what you can or cannot say on the internet
- The social network is where people can use a great level of creativity to express themselves, but censorship will take that away
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Health
At a young age, children are physically immature
It’s very likely for a child to face with physical + mental problems
- BBC News, 2017: “children involved at a professional level in sports are at a higher risk than their peers of physical problems like breaking bones”
- Gomez, who died from injury when she was 15 years old in a competition
+ WHO: “the rate of child performers injury is very low
+ there are professional’s help to manage them: nutrients, family…
Development
Child stars have very busy schedules
Easily vulnerable because of over-exercising + eating disorders
Have enough time to relax + rest
- Lena, the winner of a famous dancer competition, had to struggle with eating disorders for all her life + died at 34 years old
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Child development
Have opportunities to work with famous people and experts
Develop their talents and reach their full potential
- Britney Spear, Christina Aguilera, Justine Timberlake were discovered by the show called the Mickey Mouse Club => become some of the most successful singers in the world
+ children may be danger because of training + or become a presumptuous person + affect to their study at school
Health
Children can improve ability + skills + health
They involve in a professional level in sports => train physically => build strength + muscle + increase fitness level => improve health
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POINTS REFUSE CONS
NAGATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Effectiveness
Employees have the right to hire who are most likely
Know a person’s age because the lob is not suitable for older or younger person
- Construction industry with heavy work demand for younger because they have good heath + more focus + active
PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Equality
Age should not be necessarily to assess the ability
of workers
Evaluating a person depend on the basis of their age is unfair + unacceptable
Efficiency
Age is not the most important factor to assess when hiring staff, instead, the qualifications + experience
of candidate should be
If companies select their staff depending on age, they could hire people with less experience
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Unhealthy
Too much fast food and sof drink ads on TV today
Encourage children to consume so much fatty, sugary + salty food
- “a can of cola contains 2000 calories, but a number
of calories that a child need is about 1000”
Create obese, fluctuate blood sugar levels + increase child’s risk for cardiovascular disease
+ that is the responsibility
of parents, not advertisement
Society
Most of advertisement about unhealthy food
Cause unhealthy youngsters with bad eating habits
Society will pay a high price in terms of the extra medical
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Content
Provide information of product, especially the new product
Describes the explanation of the function of the product that is suitable for children
- Children find new toys to play with => watch ads =>
function + material + price to buy => useful
Useful
Ads on TV are created by using educating stories + imaginative scenes
help parent feed their children easier + encourage healthy eating, road safety on other socially useful messages
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Knowledge
Increase our knowledge
Understand more about the universe: how it was created, the reason why it exists
- NASA, 2015: “we have already discovered new planets, like Kepler 22b, may support life in other solar systems
Technology
Exploring space is extremely beneficial because of its technological advances
So, we have lots of inventions, new laws of physics
- Space magazines, 2018: “nations spending money
on supporting space exploration have the most modern technology such as America, Russia,…
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Waste of money
Expensive
Build rockets + satellites + train astronaut and experts + develop new tech and machine for space missions
- NASA, 2018: “total cost for the space program pf NASA is $196 billion”
+ the cost spend on space program is not significant with total money of the nation
Useless
Instead of spending money on space exploration, government should use the funds on health care, education, food, housing + other social programs that would benefit a lot of people + make their lives better
- “The money spend on exploring space can help decrease 60% of the world’s hunger”
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POINTS REFUSE PROS
AFFIRMATIVE
SIDE
(should)
Development
Early childhood is the most important time of a child’s development
The mother or the father should be there to raise them and devote as much time as possible
By staying at home, mothers can ensure that their children have the best start in life, by giving them love and attention
- Ex: prepare healthy nutritious meals for them and look afer them
Financial expense
Cut out the expense of work include business clothes, dry cleaning, gas and transportation
Eliminate expense for childcare service
CONS
NEGATIVE
SIDE
(should not)
Social interaction
Mothers spend all 24 hours on children
They can miss the interaction they had with their co-workers + miss engaging in social activities like office parties, business meetings + corporate outings
Lack of adult interaction can start to have a negative effect on their marriage
Income
Loss individual financial independences
Depend for little things on their husbands
Feel depressed because they are not bringing any income